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Author:  past nastification [ Tue Mar 28, 2023 7:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
I don't know anything about the character aside from seeing the Classified figure. But that figure looked interesting enough to convert to 1:18.

That Classified figure has a black/silver fight stick/edged weapon/Darth Maul accessory. I switched over to two smaller copper fighting sticks, but they ended up looking like Golden Breadsticks.

Everybody's gotta eat.

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Author:  2DARK2C [ Tue Mar 28, 2023 7:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
beautiful paint work! you blended those parts great too!
Author:  harlie [ Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:07 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
Over all great work, but my main nit pick is the hands. Not a fan of the splayed open look, there's no way she's holding her batons.
Author:  past nastification [ Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
2DARK2C wrote:
beautiful paint work! you blended those parts great too!


Thanks. She's 100% junk parts, too, which always makes me happy.
Author:  past nastification [ Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
2DARK2C wrote:
beautiful paint work! you blended those parts great too!


Before I forget, her fighting sticks are made from swizzlesticks in a fodder box you sent me!
Author:  past nastification [ Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
harlie wrote:
Over all great work, but my main nit pick is the hands. Not a fan of the splayed open look, there's no way she's holding her batons.


Thanks.

You are correct about the hands.

I was trying to sell them as "twirling" the fighting sticks. If the arms were in a more dramatic position, it would look better. But... when I epoxy-filled the inside to create the new space to fill the plug-in of the arm, I used a dab too much super glue to stabilize the plug-in to the cured epoxy on the back half of the inside while the new epoxy on the front half was curing. So her right arm doesn't move forwards/backwards, only up/down laterally.

On the upside, adding the knuckle band and "mouth edge" to the hand does a pretty decent job of making Greeda's frog-like hands into gloves.

Two steps forward; one step back.
Author:  pluv [ Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
You had me at Golden Breadsticks. Great custom of a character that would have been long forgotten if not for her still managing to clog up shelf pegs.
Author:  past nastification [ Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
pluv wrote:
You had me at Golden Breadsticks. Great custom of a character that would have been long forgotten if not for her still managing to clog up shelf pegs.


Thanks! I take some pride in that this will probably be one of the very few Akiko customs ever made.

I can't understand how Hasbro makes GI Joe movies that are so bad the product won't move, even amongst collectors. It's shameful.
Author:  kowalski [ Fri Mar 31, 2023 1:44 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
That build is insane! Love a good kit-bash custom and this one is pretty damned impressive. Awesome work.
Author:  past nastification [ Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:00 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
kowalski wrote:
That build is insane! Love a good kit-bash custom and this one is pretty damned impressive. Awesome work.


Thanks.

I was very happy with the final product to the point where I decided to make the female Blue Ninja. Also using junk parts, of course. I didn't have any duplicate parts, so it will with use different parts.
Author:  Rambo [ Wed Apr 12, 2023 9:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
past nastification wrote:
2DARK2C wrote:
beautiful paint work! you blended those parts great too!


Thanks. She's 100% junk parts, too, which always makes me happy.


Very nice.
Author:  past nastification [ Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Akiko and her Golden Breadsticks
Thanks!
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